Training Feature Attribution for Vision Models

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Main Authors: Bacha, Aziz, George, Thomas
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Published: 2025
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author Bacha, Aziz
George, Thomas
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George, Thomas
contents Deep neural networks are often considered opaque systems, prompting the need for explainability methods to improve trust and accountability. Existing approaches typically attribute test-time predictions either to input features (e.g., pixels in an image) or to influential training examples. We argue that both perspectives should be studied jointly. This work explores *training feature attribution*, which links test predictions to specific regions of specific training images and thereby provides new insights into the inner workings of deep models. Our experiments on vision datasets show that training feature attribution yields fine-grained, test-specific explanations: it identifies harmful examples that drive misclassifications and reveals spurious correlations, such as patch-based shortcuts, that conventional attribution methods fail to expose.
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spellingShingle Training Feature Attribution for Vision Models
Bacha, Aziz
George, Thomas
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Deep neural networks are often considered opaque systems, prompting the need for explainability methods to improve trust and accountability. Existing approaches typically attribute test-time predictions either to input features (e.g., pixels in an image) or to influential training examples. We argue that both perspectives should be studied jointly. This work explores *training feature attribution*, which links test predictions to specific regions of specific training images and thereby provides new insights into the inner workings of deep models. Our experiments on vision datasets show that training feature attribution yields fine-grained, test-specific explanations: it identifies harmful examples that drive misclassifications and reveals spurious correlations, such as patch-based shortcuts, that conventional attribution methods fail to expose.
title Training Feature Attribution for Vision Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09135